conspicuous in our collective absence

now playing: david crosby, "orleans"

top story on cnn right now:

"U.S. official: Pakistanis suffering 'a lot of casualties'"

so right now, as i'm preparing to lay me down to sleep, Pakistanis are dying in battle to smoke out Al-Qaeda's leadership and possibly capture the number two man in the AQ chain of command...

so why aren't we there?

where is the US militarys' big stick now? if we're so fucking gung-ho with this "war on terror" shit, why aren't we out there, mixing it up with them to flush this guy out?

our priorities in this so-called war are so glaringly misaligned that i can't conceive of how anyone buys this shit anymore. iraq couldn't have less to do with the war on terror if we made it the goddamn fifty-first state.